TALKING – Transactional Analysis Learning for Keeling over the INtercultural Gap Erasmus Project

Project Title

TALKING – Transactional Analysis Learning for Keeling over the INtercultural Gap

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

TALKING project originates from the intent to respond to the theme dealt with by the EPALE National Seminar “Migrants: new educational needs of trainers” (Catania 2015), namely the need for professional updating for those working in the training centres for immigrant adults and requiring communicative and relational competences and skills to deal effectively the difficulties arising from interaction with groups with relevant cultural and personal differences.
The overall aim of the project is to produce an impact on adult education system by improving the quality of Teaching/Learning processes for training courses for immigrants through keeling over the transcultural gaps and relational difficulties and its specific objective is to update the skills of teachers and trainers engaged in training with immigrants.
Seven are the partner organizations/institutions of the project:
– IFREP 93 (Institute for Training and Research for Educators and Psychotherapists 1993), training and research in health field- Italy
– CPIA 3 Roma (Adult Education Provincial Centre 3 Roma)-Italy
– CONSORZIO RO. MA., vocational training-Italy
– EELI (European education and Learning Institute), adult education-Greece
– MBM TDC (Training and Development Center), Career Development center-the UK
– IMPEFE (Municipal Institute for Economic, Formative and occupational promotion), local government-Spain
– RIC NM (Centre for Educational Development Novo Mesto), adult education-Slovenia
The main activities undertaken in the project are:
O1-Construction of the TRAINING PATH for teachers/trainers of education centres for adult migrants in key AT, as good practice in the field of education, through the following activities:
. TA methodology sharing;
. systematisation of existing good practice in the field of education of immigrant adults;
. local comparison with stakeholders through focus groups
. Implementation of training content;
. alignment of good practices with TA methodology
. systematization of the TRAINING PATH content
C1 – a seven days Joint staff training event for tachers / trainers at Rethymno (Greece)
. Pilots of training applied in adult education centres
. definition of guidelines on teaching/learning processes for trainers
. analysis and reporting of case studies
. direct consultation among partners in 5 transnational meetings and 5 online meetings.
. wide dissemination activities of the project results through leaflets, brochures, articles, presentations, newsletters and 5 multiplier events, at the end of the project, in the partner countries for the dissemination of the project results among the stakeholders.
O2-Realization and implementation of the web TALKING COMMUNITY PLATFORM for the dissemination of methodology, project results (O1 Path) and educational resources (OER) supported by the analysis of the teachers/trainers needs, design, implementation and testing of the platform and at last dissemination of the Talking Website and Platform.
The main results obtained through the TALKING Project are the updating of the competences of teachers/trainers, an innovative methodology for the management of the educational relationship with immigrant adults and improvement of the quality of teaching/learning processes.
The impact achieved through the project is that the teachers/trainers involved in the project have implemented effective educational interventions within the educational relationship with the migrant, the immigrants involved in the project benefited from educational pathways built on their expressed needs, the adult education institutions involved were able to incorporate the methodology implemented by the project into their teachers/trainers’ refresher programmes and the training institutes involved have improved the quality and the supply of the training courses provided.
The long-term benefits expected from the project are:
– adoption of the new methodology by professionals working in favor of immigrants, teachers, NGOs, public bodies involved in the project – use of the “Training Path for Teachers” by the Cpias for the updating of the teachers/trainers
– inclusion of the project results in the training offer of the professional centres
– inclusion of the Training Path modules in training programmes for IFREP 93 educators
– availability and use of the project products through free access to the web training resources of the web Talking Community platform Talking partnership has undertaken to maintain the online platform fully operational for 5 years after the completion of the project, thus posing the basis for a possible follow – up project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 295115 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro Provinciale Istruzione Adulti 3 & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Instituto Municipal de Promoción Económica, Formación y Empleo
• Razvojno izobrazevalni center Novo mesto
• European Education and Learning Institute
• Consorzio Ro.Ma.
• ISTITUTO FORMAZIONE E RICERCA PER EDUCATORI E PSICOTERAPEUTI 1993
• MBM Training and Development Center